Kimwolf is the latest reminder that the most dangerous botnets now grow quietly inside everyday consumer electronics.

In the movie The Manchurian Candidate, two soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed into sleeper agents. Later the soldiers become unwitting assassins when activated by a handler. Sound familiar? It ...

QiAnXin XLab published a new report on Kimwolf, an Android-based botnet that primarily targets TVs, set-top boxes, and ...

Kimwolf botnet infected 1.8 million Android TV devices and issued 1.7 billion DDoS commands, using ENS to hide its control ...

One of the largest and most devastating distributed denial-of-service attacks to date shows how a mix of infected computers and internet-connected devices is giving attackers more firepower than ever ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Could millions of connected cameras, thermostats and kids' toys bring the internet to its knees? It's beginning to look that way. On Friday, epic cyberattacks crippled a major ...

The number of cybersecurity attacks skyrocketed in frequency and increased in complexity as the internet of things (IoT) spread its wings in 2017. But DDoS attacks are really nothing new. They turn 30 ...

Hundreds of thousands of home routers, IP cameras and other internet-of-things devices have been infected with malware over the past year and have been used to launch some of the largest distributed ...

The FBI issued an alert this week that as the number of connected IoT devices are expected to increase to 20 billion to 50 billion by 2020, the threat of DDoS attacks on vulnerabilities in the devices ...

The source code for a trojan program that infected hundreds of thousands of internet-of-things devices and used them to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks has been published online, paving ...

Threat actors have discovered a way to bounce and amplify junk web traffic against Citrix ADC networking equipment to launch DDoS attacks. While details about the attackers are still unknown, victims ...

Netlab, the networking security division of Chinese security firm Qihoo 360, said it discovered this week a new fledgling malware operation that is currently infecting Android devices for the purpose ...